I am listening to The Smiths right now (The Greatest Hits CD), sitting at my desk, doing a little writing and looking out the open window at the sodium-light-bathed parking lot of the apartment complex. The air is cool but still warm enough for the window to be open. I am thinking back [...]

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As a follow up to my earlier posting, Ibrahim Ferrer, who was denied entry to the United States for the Grammy Awards, won the award for Best Tropical Latin Album last night. A shame that, thanks to the small minds in the State Department, he was unable to accept.
Linux successes thus far
It’s been two weeks [...]

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I posted back on January 7 regarding my attempts to get a version of Mandrake Linux 9.2 running on my computer. Because I had a tiny hard drive, it took the offer of a free second hard drive to make it possible for this to happen. I met my friend Doug on Friday night, January [...]

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Thanks to the kindness of someone on my message board, I got a free CD Burner that the other person wasn’t using. It arrived in the mail yesterday, and I had it up and running in about 1/2 an hour. I bought some blank media late last night and didn’t start trying to burn things [...]

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